When I've Gone The Last Mile Of The Way
Humor
Windows for Sermons
Stories And Humor For Inspired Preaching
Object:
One night I had a dream. It seemed I was in a fair-sized group of people who had gathered to wait for something to happen. No one was angry or seemed to be unhappy, so I guessed it was not a mass meeting to protest something.
There were some persons there who were distinctive in dress. One woman in pink was surrounded by some people, dear friends no doubt. A man I saw dressed in black was also surrounded by a group, and he was singing to them. It might have been Johnny Cash! But most of us were anonymous. I began to realize this was the end of something that had happened to us all. The mood was a time of celebration.
Then the woman in pink was gone! Vanished! And the man in black also! The people in groups were reverent in prayer: then they disbanded. What did it all mean? Was this the way life was to end for all of the rest of us?
I thought of Peter Jenkins who closed his popular book, Walk Across America Volume II, with a vivid description of how people he had met on his walk began to gather with Peter and his wife as they walked the last few miles of his journey to the Pacific Ocean. A song came to mind as Peter and a large number of friends finally went the last mile of the way. What a beautiful way to end a journey!
Peter has become a noted author and has written other books, so it was not the end of the way. What will it be like for us when we have walked the last mile of the way? You are invited to join a multitude of believers in anticipation of the future of God's love.
If I walk in the pathway of duty,
If I work till the close of the day;
I shall see the King in His beauty,
When I've gone the last mile of the way,
When I've gone the last mile of the way,
I will rest at the close of the day,
And I know there are joys that await me,
When I've gone the last mile of the way.
There were some persons there who were distinctive in dress. One woman in pink was surrounded by some people, dear friends no doubt. A man I saw dressed in black was also surrounded by a group, and he was singing to them. It might have been Johnny Cash! But most of us were anonymous. I began to realize this was the end of something that had happened to us all. The mood was a time of celebration.
Then the woman in pink was gone! Vanished! And the man in black also! The people in groups were reverent in prayer: then they disbanded. What did it all mean? Was this the way life was to end for all of the rest of us?
I thought of Peter Jenkins who closed his popular book, Walk Across America Volume II, with a vivid description of how people he had met on his walk began to gather with Peter and his wife as they walked the last few miles of his journey to the Pacific Ocean. A song came to mind as Peter and a large number of friends finally went the last mile of the way. What a beautiful way to end a journey!
Peter has become a noted author and has written other books, so it was not the end of the way. What will it be like for us when we have walked the last mile of the way? You are invited to join a multitude of believers in anticipation of the future of God's love.
If I walk in the pathway of duty,
If I work till the close of the day;
I shall see the King in His beauty,
When I've gone the last mile of the way,
When I've gone the last mile of the way,
I will rest at the close of the day,
And I know there are joys that await me,
When I've gone the last mile of the way.
